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With the price of cards so low, buy some extras. Never reformat right away. Wait until the next time you use the card, check the photos to see if you still need them for any reason, then reformat the card.

No Single point of failure for important photos. I make sure they are safely on two different types of media before I wipe the flash.

That would normally be, on the local hard drive, and saved to storage on the internet. If no internet available then save temporarily to removable media. Unless you shoot thousands of very jigh res images, a couple of 4GB thumb drives are inexpensive temporary backup storage. The folks who shoot big tend to have a second hard drive, or burn the stuff right to a bunch of DVDs.

Photos go to the external drive I use with my laptop and also to my fileserver before the card gets cleared. I don't think I've been checking to make sure they're all there, though - I'll start doing that now!

Thanks for the rec Mike, We hit format on a card that we hadn't pulled the pics off once, the freeware recovery program I tryed didn't find a thing on the card. Luckily nothing as important as yours though. I'll be checking this one out for sure.

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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" John W Lennon

"People do not quit playing because they grow old, they grow old because they quit playing" George Bernard Shaw

i was on location in miami at the biltmore once and we shot just over 120 rolls of film in a single hour. that wasn't the total for the day, just the busiest hour. for the format we were shooting it's 12 shots per roll so ... 1440 in one hour. grueling day as i remember.

so in other words, you need to shoot more john. especially now since cost per shot is essentially nothing.

That's the best thing about digital photography, you make that one time intitial investment and then shoot, shoot, shoot. It doesn't really cost you anything, bracket your shots, take 3-4-5-10 at every opportuninty. Especially with moving kites, one shot will stand out from the rest.

I need to learn how to use my auto bracket feature. My last camera had a nice feature where it took continuous shots when you held the shutter, but only saved the last 5 when you released the shutter, it was great for catching that expression etc when shooting candid shots. I think the new Canon IS does it too but it has so many features and I haven't made the time to run them all yet. Candid shots are my favorite when shooting people, I don't do the "Say Cheese" thing, I'd much rather stand back, zoom in, unaware there's a camera pointed at them.

Couldn't afford to do those things with film, unless of course you were being paid. For me it's been over 30 years since I made money off photography.

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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" John W Lennon

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I found the rapid fire feature most helpful when shooting (photographing) children. I will hold down the button and capture 10-15 shots in sequence, and almost guaranteed to get one or two perfect pictures.

Also very handy for sports/action shots, I don't think I could go back to shutter lag

I found the rapid fire feature most helpful when shooting (photographing) children. I will hold down the button and capture 10-15 shots in sequence, and almost guaranteed to get one or two perfect pictures.

Also very handy for sports/action shots, I don't think I could go back to shutter lag

Nothing beats getting the *right* shot. Shutter lag is very important for that, I agree, but it's not the same as a motor drive. A motor drive probably won't let you get a shot right as the ball hits the catcher's mitt, for instance, but short shutter lag and a good sense of timing will.

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